Sunday's Sound Off

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Obama closed down the White House tours. Now when he heard Fox News and Trump will pay the employees to reopen the house, he now says he wasn’t the one who closed down the tours. Again he’s blaming someone else. What else is new?

When it comes to budgets, federal, state or local, whether it’s a Pentagon budget or school budgets, I think most people are tired of seeing people cut at the bottom. We want the people cut at the top who make the big money and have the big benefits. The people at the bottom and in the middle have paid long and hard enough. We want a change.

Last weekend in Boyertown was “Charlie Brown” at the Boyertown Junior High School West. The show was excellent and the auditorium was full. This past weekend also was “Little Mermaid” at the middle school in Daniel Boone and that was excellent. They had a sell out on all the nights. So there’s a lot of entertainment in the area; you don’t have to travel far.

In response to a Limerick resident, you are the first person and I repeat the first person guaranteed without a doubt for sure who absolutely would call 911 if you were robbed, assaulted, raped or in an accident. So you do not wish to pay the Limerick police for their time and services? My advice, move.

Spring-Ford High School, let’s talk graduation. The football field just will not do. How many times do we have to cancel graduation because of inclement weather or unforeseen circumstances? There is not enough parking or seating for those in the auditorium either. It is time to select a proper venue and allow these kids to have their day.

WISHINGThe regional wrestling committee concerns itself with the mechanics of the tournament only. The food sales, clothing concessions and sale of programs and bracket sheets are entirely up to the host school. That is why at the last two regional venues, Norristown and Oxford, those brackets were prominently displayed and updated constantly for both the wrestlers and spectators to view. But not at Pottstown where the dollar comes before the fans.

CHEAP CHEAPDoes anyone know of a place I could take documents to be shredded? I have a pretty large amount of documents and I wanted to have them shredded.

Wake up Pottsgrove School Board. You’ve hired a superintendent who has no clue and costs the taxpayers more and more every day. They now hired a consultant to have a new identity for the Pottsgrove School District for $3,000. We have an education and assessment coordinator at $600 a day. How about we try putting the money into the classrooms and the kids instead of more administrators and consultants?

To show you how things are messed up in the U.S. with health care, Medicaid recipients get dental work and long-term health care but people who have Medicare don’t have dental and don’t get the long term care. These politicians are one big joke.

This is for all those seniors who are so concerned about their property taxes that keep going up and no relief is in sight. No matter what the people on the right tell you, the fact is that 70 percent of all corporations doing business in Pennsylvania pay no taxes at all. The people doing all the shale drillings are paying virtually no taxes, paying too low a rate for what they’re doing to our land, possibly our water supply and the profits they are reaping.

I heard that the West End Fire Company in Phoenixville has been shut down and no longer in service. We the residents now have to wait for an ambulance from Trappe to come get someone. Anyone could die in that time. We had three fire companies at one time and are now down to one, Station 65. God bless the Phoenixville residents if they have a fire because their houses could burn down. They’d better think of the residents and not themselves.

It’s not the Republicans or the Democrats that are our enemy. It is the Progressives of both parties — they are those politicians who seek to control you. They know best what you need. They’re like Mayor Bloomberg in New York who says you shouldn’t drink over a 16 oz. soda so he tells you that you can’t, or red meat is bad for you, you shouldn’t eat it. It’s Progressives of both parties that we have to vote out of office. Join the Tea Party and learn the truth.

The Spring-Ford School Board isn’t there to save money but to do what the administrators want. They don’t care about saving money for the taxpayers. Even laying off the custodians didn’t save money with all the overtime they are paying now to cover the jobs the contractors don’t do.